EDIT: It can be more depending if a pedal is in front of the amp and the other is in the loop

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What will you be using the noise gate for, reducing guitar squeel or reducing amp hum. If its the later it will need to be in the loop.

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People would leave guitars for me in a box on the doorstep with a note "Please look after little Johnie, we just cant cope anymore, all he wants to do is hook up with Marshalls, We thought he would be a fender boy.

To reduce that sound 5150's make when you stop playing, you must use a noise suppressor/gate. Turn the amp on standby or turn the guitar volume down which is too difficult if its only short times you stop eg. a breakdown

That noise gate will have to be put in the effects loop, and yes you will need more cables

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People would leave guitars for me in a box on the doorstep with a note "Please look after little Johnie, we just cant cope anymore, all he wants to do is hook up with Marshalls, We thought he would be a fender boy.

Yeah but if you've ever played live before you'll know that often times when you're blasting an amp (even a large one) at high gain settings it'll feed back and muting the strings won't do s**t.

then it isnt feedback, it is noise. feedback is exactly what it says, it is the sound of the amp feeding back into the guitar string and making them vibrate. if you mute the strings and are getting feedback, something else in your chain is picking it up. which means you probably have something like a bad cable, or it is infact noise and not feedback.

which is fine, and sticking the gate in the loop is what will fix it, but a noisy amp is not neccesarily feeding back.

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